All You Want To Know About Cashmere

Posted on 23 November, 2022 by LaMilago Bespoke Tailors

What Makes Cashmere Superior 

Bespoke Cashmere has always been the focal point of the Lamilago Bespoke Tailors  collection. When the days start getting cooler, we bring the finest cashmere sweaters for our customers. Though everyone knows it as a supersoft fabric for colder months, it is never fully understood. We take this opportunity to tell you all you should know about your favorite winter fabric. 

Through this piece of information, Lamilago helps you to understand this softest and warmest yarn. We have explored its origin and unique properties. This is a sincere effort to enable our customers to select their cashmere sweaters with greater panache. 

What is Cashmere?

Cashmere is one of the rarest and most precious fibers in the world. It is soft to touch, bright in color, and warm to wear. A dress made from cashmere is a symbol of luxury. Cashmere is a kind of natural fiber, which is made from the hair of goats, which live in the cold and dry highlands. Most of them are concentrated in Mongolia and Xinjiang in China, where it is very dry and cold in winter. In order to survive, these goats have grown thick and rough hair to keep warm. Right under the rough hair, there is a layer of fine fiber that is known as cashmere. The cashmere production from each goat is very limited; therefore, it takes four years in a row to gather enough cashmere from the body of a goat to make a cashmere sweater.

What is the difference between cashmere and wool?

Cashmere is different from wool, as the latter is from the body of a sheep, while cashmere is only from the body of goats. Generally speaking, cashmere refers exclusively to the product sourced from goats, while a sheep does not produce cashmere. Many people name the fine wool of sheep which has somewhat similar characteristics as those of cashmere as “sheep cashmere”, which has actually confused the concepts of cashmere and wool.

What are the characteristics of cashmere?

Slender, soft, and warm – Cashmere is the finest animal fiber. Cashmere material selection of our company cashmere is generally between 13um-15.5um, with high natural tortuosity, which can be closely arranged in spinning and weaving; they have good cohesion, which produces better warm insulation as high as 1.5-2 times that of wool. The appearance scales of cashmere fibers are small and smooth. There is a layer of air in the middle of the fiber, which makes the fiber light in weight and smooth to the touch.

Natural and soft color- Cashmere fiber has even fineness and low density, and the cross-sections are mostly in round shape, with strong hygroscopicity, to fully absorb dyes and make it not easy to fade. Therefore, compared with other fibers, it is easy to identify the advantages of cashmere, such as natural sheen, soft-touch, pureness, and bright color. Pliable and flexible – Because of its large tortuosity number, rate, and recovery rate, cashmere fiber is suitable for the knitwear that has a plump and soft touch, elastic fabrics, and feels natural and comfortable to wear, with good restoring features, which is especially embodied in the fact that it does not shrink after washing, with good shape retention.

Do you know how to select a cashmere sweater?

The raw cashmere taken from goats is screened, washed, and combed before becoming the pure cashmere raw material, namely, dehaired cashmere. It is after more than 50 processes including dyeing, spinning, weaving, and finishing that it can finally be made into all kinds of cashmere garments. 

The easiest way to select cashmere is to feel the density of the fiber and look at the natural sheen. At Lamilago, we are helping our customers to get only top-quality cashmere sweaters. In producing cashmere sweaters, our company adopts high-quality raw materials, rigorous processes, advanced equipment, scientific techniques, and strict tests, and the products are featured by smooth appearance, exquisite craftsmanship, silky feeling, clear lines, good evenness, good fullness, soft color, and good elasticity.

When you invest in a supersoft cashmere product, you are choosing quality, luxury, and durability. At Lamilago, we take the art of bespoke clothing to the next level by giving customized cashmere sweaters to stay comfortable and stylish in our winter wear. Since this luxurious cashmere will last longer than regular wool knitwear, you are sure to get the perfect return on your investment. Also, you get sublime sartorial satisfaction from your winter wear.